quarters

IPA: kwˈɔrtɝz

(plural only, military) Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.
(by extension) The place where someone or something lives
A commonly played university drinking game in North America.
Quarterfinals.

Examples of "quarters" in Sentences

Using a sharp knife cut each pear into quarters from the top down.
Cut the chayotes in quarters lengthwise, skin, soft white seed and all.
You are right, productivity lagged two quarters is a great leading indicatoir.
In certain quarters, you do hear people saying that there is nothing to celebrate.
One of the hilarious if somewhat disgusting themes we've heard from certain quarters is that Obama will win because he's black.
No one has addressed these questions, no one has taken the long term view, the Empire thinks in quarters of a year, not decades of a century.
“compound quartering,” and quarters A, D are _quarters quarterly_, and B is _a quarter quarterly of six_, while C remains unaffected by the secondary process.
In any case, when I saw post after post going up on the progressive side of the aisle, while at that point nothing had appeared in quarters where one might reasonably have expected it, I found that mildly ironic; so I dropped Collins a line asking the obvious question.